How to get attribute value for an assembly in Cecil

Question

Is there a way to get str1 in code ?

[MyAttribute("str1")]
class X {}

The instance of Mono.Cecil.CustomAttribute.Fields is empty.

Answer 1

When using attributes in .NET you are either using the constructor parameters and setting some (named) fields. This is encoded differently in the metadata and ends up separately in Cecil.

the instance of Mono.Cecil.CustomAttribute.Fields is empty

What you're using is looking for fields when the constructor arguments were used for the custom attribute. So what you're looking for is:

type.CustomAttributes[0].ConstructorArguments[0].Value